FrontPage Background Image Tile Trick

Prodigy, IE2 and Netscape 2+3 (I don't have NS 4 yet)
don't support a background image for a table cell. So it
would seem impossible to tile an image in a cell for
display in one of these browsers. But wait...

I make extensive use of a trick I discovered, on my
website (http://www.max-soft.com/).
You will notice that the top drop-shadow and the blue
dividers will resize themselves automatically when the
browser window is resized. It appears the image is being
tiled but it is not. The images are actually only 8x8
pixels in size!

My trick will only work with horizontally flat images
(images that have no changes in the pixel pattern from
the left side to the right side of the image).

The image for the drop-shadow and the blue divider are
only 8x8 pixels in size. I am stretching the image
horizontally to fill the entire cell no matter how wide
it gets. This can be done by doing the below steps in the
order given:

Create a table/cell and set its width to 100%.

Set the cell height to the height of the below
image.

Insert a horizontally-flat image into the cell.

Right-click on the image to select it.

Select "Image Properties" from the
pop-up menu.

Click on the "Appearance" tab.

Check "Specify Size".

Click the "Percent" radio button for
the "Width" (this will gray out the
"keep aspect ratio").

Set the width percentage to 100% (leave the
height alone).

Click OK to close the pop-up dialog.

The image will now stretch to the full width of the
cell that it is in. If the image is a true
horizontally-flat image there should be no distortion in
the image from the left to the right side no matter how
wide or thin the browser window it set to. It will appear
that the image was created to be the full width of the
cell and not the actual size of just 8 pixels wide.

The reason my trick requires a horizontally-flat image
is that when it is stretch, distortion would be
introduced to the image if the image didn't contain the
same pixel pattern going from left to right. This happens
because the browser will try to mathematically resize the
image to fit the bigger width, and usually the
"filler" pixels it adds will make the image
look noisy. Its OK for the image to have a different
pixel pattern from top to bottom because my example
doesn't stretch the image vertically.

Quirks:

1) the Prodigy browser wont even show an image if its
resized at all. But it does support a background color
for a cell. So to allow prodigy visitors to see a decent
divider, I set the background color of the cell to a
color that will look descent when viewed in prodigy.
Since prodigy's browser wont show the stretched image at
all, all the visitor will see is the cell color as a
divider. This is why its important to set the cell height
to the image height, so when a browser that can show
stretch images is being used, only the image will be seen
by the visitor, not the background color behind the
image.

2) Netscape 2+3 (I do not have 4.0 yet). Will not
stretch the image properly unless the image is given the
"right justify" attribute by clicking on the
right justify button toolbar in FrontPage. This results
in the image being slightly offset to the right.